Thursday, October 1, 2009

American culture

American culture is something that many Americans don’t believe exists, for this reason; it is not easy to tell what American Culture is. I think that our culture was created by a combination of people from different countries all over the world. All the individual cultures grow less prominent and people become part of this U.S. culture. For example, common music Americans listen to like rock, was developed out of slave chants which soon became known as the blues. Many African Americans who were enslaved in the 1800’s sang these chants. Blues music evolved into rock through years of American ingenuity through experimentation with different instruments and vocal styles. You may describe American culture as developing in this way. There are quite a few examples that we may not have known are part of our culture really are. Holidays like Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Halloween are all celebrations that began in the United States. America is home to many of the most important inventions of all time. The computer developed in the U.S. The light bulb was created by Thomas Edison in America. Imagine the modern world without these inventions. American people are always being changed by these innovative ideas. Our culture is possibly the most innovative and varied culture in the world. In my family, culture isn’t very noticeable, to me at least. Other than hearing my grandmother speak Dutch every once in a while, I don’t think that my family is very cultural. My dad’s mother and father were both born in America to parents born in the Netherlands. I never met his father, but I am told he could speak Dutch. I would describe my family’s culture as falling apart for the most part. It seems like in America, people’s culture fades away, neither of my parents have been to where their families are originally from, and neither have I. America seems to be one culture growing out of a million different ones, and when all these cultures come together the individual culture seems to not be present as much as before. People adapt to their new habitats after they leave there home country.

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